Asus to use Qualcomm chipset in this year's Google Nexus 7 tablet

Qualcomm's CMO might have been on to something when he dissed NVIDIA recently saying that Snapdragon will catch up with the ground it lost to Tegra in Android tablets.

Rumor has it that Google might be switching to Snapdragon for the next iteration of the Nexus 7 tablet line, instead of using Tegra 4, for instance. The idea is to save on logistics, as Snapdragon is a system-on-a-chip package, meaning that the broadband radio is included in the chipset.

The tip comes from an analyst, whose supply chain sources indicate that besides a Full HD screen, Asus is prepping for a chip replacement with its Nexus tablet, from Tegra to Snapdragon:

Supply chain conversations indicate two reasons for Google’s selection of the Snapdragon APQ8064 over Tegra 4: competitive pricing, and a decision to single-source the application processor and 3G/4G modem to simplify logistics and create a fully pin-compatible platform interface,” declared McConnell.

I posted this before, I'll post it again;
Nvidia Never had the most powerful chips, but they have done more for android gaming than the other companies. What you hardware hounds fail to see is that the Tegra 4 itself is pretty much overkill, as is any other latest gen mobile processor. How much do you really need on a 5" 1080 screen? What needs work is the gameplay, and just as important, control. Few android game developers provide controller support, Nvidia (and Ouya) are working on it with Shield with OUYA, is Qualcomm? Is Sammy? Nvidia is the one working on making Android a gaming platform. And for that Nvidia has my support. I have an Xperia Tablet S (Tegra3 ) and a sony Walkman Z (Tegra 2) and they play games BEAUTIFULLY You may also Notice that these devices have lower res screens, I think that Retina screens are over kill, my walkman 840 x 480 screen ( i believe) playing Samuri 2 JUST as pretty as my iPod Touch 4th, Anything beyond 720 on a phone and 1080 on a tablet is just wasted horsepower (maybe 1200 on larger tablets)

+1 I have a Tegra 3 smartphone and i couldn't be happier, great games and just so much horsepower for normal tasks that it never slows down, also the fifth power saving ninja core makes the phone use little to no battery when in stand-by which is a very good feature IMO.

The only problem with Tegra is that it seems to have many haters, i seriously never understood why, as Battlebrat posted Nvidia is the only one who cares about Android gaming and it shows on the THD optimized games, it might not have the brute force of the PowerVR GPUs but it can run games that are as beautiful despite having less power. I have seen many people say "Mali 400 pwns the Tegra3!1!1!!!" But that isn't entirely true as they trade blows with each other on GL benchmark, Tegra has its flaws so does Mali. Also the bad performance on Gameloft games is just because they are lazy and just port iOS games, they have never bothered about Nvidia and that is why the games sometimes run bad on Tegra devices.

Let's just hope we don't have another Tegra 2 incident. Nothing got updated past ICS, and I can only think of 2 devices that did get ICS. It was that little fiasco that gave Motorola a bad name with updates, with all the angry Atrix and Droid X2 owners.

You need the same power you'd need for any size 1080p screen. The size is irrelevant, its the same number of pixels being pushed. If you want smooth framerates, you need a gpu that can handle it. No mobile gpu today can give you 60fps in an intense 3d game at 1080p.

I would really like to see tegra4 in next Nexus7...nvidia have icera500 modem to bundle with tegra4 and I think gpu on tegra4 is also better than adreno 320...moreover...google should keep diverse platforms in their devices...it helps to build better custom roms for other devices on same platform.

Daniel, the APQ8064 is not a "a system-on-a-chip package, meaning that the broadband radio is included in the chipset" as it does NOT include broadband radio.
So please correct that.
The reasons to go for a Snapdragon APQ8064 are probably: more performance, in particular in GPU. Less power consumtion as it is built in 28nm while Tegra 3 is in 40nm.
In other words: Tegra 3 is too weak, and Tegra 4 is too much for a 7 inches tablet. APQ8064 is perfect as it's somewhere in the middle.

Actually that is HTC's fault not Nvidia's. I own a One X and it is HTC's stupid CPU governor that messes up game performance. An example of this is the Nexus 7 running games better than the One X. I now have a custom kernel on my One X and the games are running smoothly.

The ignorance is strong with this one. What are you going to say next? That memory speed and bandwidth also doesn't affect games? Don't talk about stuff you don't know, we aren't talking about computers here. Do some proper research about the subject you are trying to talk about first.

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